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Polypane on the JS Party Podcast
I joined the folks at Changelog to talk about all things Polypane and had a great time chatting about everything from the business side of things to nitty gritty details of new features I was working on. Listen to it…
Polypane 20: Browser features and performance
Polypane 20 improves the features and performance of the Elements and Outline panel, as well as improving general browser features and stability. It's also running the latest version of Chromium, 126. With Polypane 1…
How to find broken links with Polypane
Broken links, or "dead links", on your website are links that go to a URL that doesn't work. Sometimes this is because the site you're linking to has gone offline or has a server error, sometimes it's because there is a…
Polypane 19: Workflow improvements
Polypane 19 comes with updated performance tests, a live DOM view in the elements panel and tons of workflow improvements. It also runs on a new Chromium version, 124. Performance testing We added capo.js to the meta…
How to check your site in different languages and writing modes
Building sites that support multiple writing modes and languages is challenging. You don't always know the language or even the script, and changing your OS to trigger certain conditions is cumbersome. Even if you're…
Forced colors explained: A practical guide
Forced colors is a CSS media query that when active radically changes the way your site looks, without any of your input. In this article we'll explore where it comes from, how it changes your site and how you can adapt…
Field-sizing just works!
field-sizing is wild. It's a new CSS property that makes input , textarea and select automatically scale to the size of their content. That means it replaces a bunch of different techniques that all require…
Polypane 18: Introducing Polypane Portal
With Polypane Portal you can now build and test your sites across all browsers, engines and devices, all without leaving Polypane. We added new features to element inspection, the document outlines and the meta data…
My take on fading content using transparent gradients in CSS
Two days ago Amit Merchant wrote a blog post on a technique to fade text out using an overlaid element based on the design of Trunk.io . He walks through how he came to this solution so go check out the article to see…
Polypane 17.1
Polypane 17.1 is primarily a bugfix and security release, but contains a few new features and newly supported browser extensions, as well as an updated Chromium. New Social media designs Twitter/X updated their card…
Experimental Chromium Web Platform Features
Polypane ships with the "experimental web platform features" flag enabled. This means you get to use a whole bunch of cool features as they're being experimented with in Chromium. It's the same flag that many blog posts…
Polypane 17: Meta panel updates, Reference image split slider and Chromium 120
Polypane 17 ships with new features in the meta panel, a new split slider feature in the reference image tool, an updated console.table, native window controls on Windows and it runs on Chromium 120. Meta panel updates A…
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